From collection Dr. John Richardson Collection
YANKEE
This is a handcolored photograph of the steamer YANKEE circa 1933, a starboard broadside view with name on stern. This steamer had single a stack and a walking beam engine. Her earlier name was J. T. MORSE. The big wooden steamboat J. T. MORSE was part of the Eastern Steamship Co. and named for their treasurer, James Thomas Morse. She was built at East Boston in 1903. Her route from 1904 to 1931 was Rockland, Maine, to Bar Harbor, with many stops along the way. In 1933 she was sold to a New York company and named YANKEE.
